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the male) C. apicicornis differs in the (generally) three fulvous 

 apical joints of the antennae (in some specimens the apical one 

 only is of that colour). It is a much smaller insect than 

 G. femoralis, Jac, and the elytra are much more shining, less 

 strongly rugose-punctate, and violaceous instead of blue. C. rufo- 

 ecerulea, Fairm., is described as being smaller than G. elegans, 

 Baly (4£ to 5 mill.), which is one of the smallest species; all 

 others differ in the colour of the breast, and partly of the legs. 

 The thorax in the present species is broader than long, the 

 sides are rather strongly rounded at the middle, and the surface 

 is not visibly punctured; the antennae, which are longer than 

 half the length of the body, have the three basal joints more or 

 less fulvous below. 



More than twenty specimens which were obtained agree in 

 the above particulars. 



Cneorane abdominalis, n. sp. 



Dark violaceous blue ; the antennae black ; thorax extremely finely 

 punctured; elytra distinctly punctate; abdomen fulvous. Length, 2 — 2^ 

 fines. 



Head impunctate, the frontal tubercles narrow, oblique ; carina acutely 

 raised ; palpi slender, piceous ; antennas filiform, black, more than half the 

 length of the body, the third joint one-half longer than the second, but 

 shorter than the fourth ; thorax scarcely broader than long, the sides 

 widened at the middle, the anterior angles slightly thickened, but scarcely 

 produced, the surface with a few very minute punctures, only visible with a 

 powerful lens ; scutellum broad, black, impunctate ; elytra nearly parallel, 

 very finely, closely, and irregularly punctured ; tibiae unarmed ; the first joint 

 of the posterior tarsi as long as the two following joints together; claws 

 appendiculate ; anterior coxa! cavities closed. 



C. abdominalis, which may be known from any of its congeners 

 by its uniformly dark blue colour and the flavous abdomen, 

 possesses all the structural characters of Cneorane. It greatly 

 resembles Luperus flaviventris, Motsch., in coloration, but is at 

 once distinguished from that species by the unarmed tibiae and 

 other structural differences. 



Half a dozen specimens. 



(To be continued.) 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &o. 



Chemistry of Insect Colours. — The kind response that my request 

 for specimens for this investigation (Entom. 131) has already met with, 

 emboldens me to ask if any readers of this journal can let me have a speci- 

 men or two each of the following British specie3, which I should like to 

 examine in time to tabulate and publish the results in their proper con- 

 nection with those already to hand. As previously explained, broken 

 specimens will answer perfectly ; and I need only the wings. It will be 

 noticed that several of these present desiderata are green, — a colour 



